By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Exile in Happy Valley Rarely a week seemed to go by during the Trump years when the sky wasn’t falling. The cable news already has a tendency of covering every single day like it could be the last, but this was different. Even […]
This is interesting. If you take out the conservative Protestant aspect of this piece, it could be something a Maoist/Third Worldist would write. Proto-Protestantism Recently I was talking with my son and he told me about some experiences he had on a Christian chat forum that he visits […]
By Telos Press Today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast features our recent panel discussion on the causes and consequences of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan. With presentations from Telos editors Mark Kelly, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, David Pan, and David Westbrook, the discussion covered various aspects of […]
Sean Gabb (22nd September 2021) I never buy newspapers, and I seldom look at them. But I did make a point of observing the collective blast of hot air from the political and media establishments when news was released of our latest entanglement with the Americans. Since we […]
Both Tulsi and Andrew Yang seem to have expired their utility at this point. Tulsi did a good deed by attacking Kamala and Mayor Peter in the primaries, and Yang did a good deed by bringing ideas like UBI, drug legalization, and automation into the mainstream. But they’re […]
Apparently, Joe is trying to be a standup comedian.
Pence reinterprets Trump to appease the neo-conservative critics and to make Trump’s ad hoc policies appear more rational. But the real purpose is to make himself appear more acceptable to the electorate. Former Vice President Mike Pence discusses the foreign policy differences between the Trump and Biden administrations […]
Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter at The Intercept, details a major blow to the anti-Taliban resistance movement in Afghanistan.
Well, that didn’t last long. AOC’s taking a very mild stand against Israel lasted less than a week. On this episode of SYSTEM UPDATE: The Democratic Congresswoman from New York previously condemned former Tulsi Gabbard’s “present” vote as an abdication of the duties of political leadership, arguing that […]
00:00 Intro 00:46 Graveyard of Empires – Why US & Afghan Forces Lost 11:41 Moderate Extremists? – What Will Taliban Rule be Like 19:56 The New Great Game – Which Geopolitical Players will step into Afghanistan After 20 years of endless war, the US has finally withdrawn from […]
Team Rising discusses new plans from both the U.S. and China to combat climate change.
Krystal and Saagar take another look at the Evergrande situation to understand the potential effects a collapse could have on China’s economy and the global economy as a whole
“The only thing the Taliban hates more than the US is ISIS” – John “Shrek” McPhee (paraphrased)
So Steve Bannon is a closet Stirnerite? The line that Alexander Reid Ross takes in the interview is what I call the “new popular front” position, which amounts to support for liberal-capitalist regimes against the threat of “fascism.” It’s something of an inversion of the alt-right “globalism vs. […]
The present time really does have so much in common with the mid to late 70s. When Nixon (the Trump of his era, with some differences) was run out of office, he was replaced by a Rockefeller Republican regime (literally, as Nelson Rockefeller was Ford’s vice-president). Then Ford […]
Probably the main reason that I frequently butt heads with the left-anarchists is that I do not necessarily believe that the universalization of “wokeism” is the priority issue or even something that needs to happen at all. I tend to view “woke anarchism” the same way I might […]
I’ve been saying the same thing for quite some time. North and South America have similar histories. North America was colonized by English-speaking Northern European Protestants, and South America was colonized by Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Southern Europe Catholics. Both continents have an African-descended population rooted in the trans-Atlantic […]
This is a very good analysis. She was always a bit weak on the drone wars.
A Maoist/Third Worldist critique of the American “left.” By Jason Unruhe and SMG John Introduction The big topic the last few weeks has been this reactionary notion of “American socialist patriotism”. The White middle-class talking heads of social media have been attempting to repackage American exceptionalism for the […]
Totally disagree with Tulsi on this. The way to end the Takfiri insurgencies is to stop backing regimes that are fostering them like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, etc, and to stop opposing or weakening regimes and/or non-state actors that are opposing them like Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, […]
This essay by an an-com ideologue illustrates why the Western Left is so weak on the question of imperialism. Tankies are only anti-imperialist when it advances tankieism, and the rest of the left is only interested in anti-imperialism when it advances Western-style liberalism or “cultural progressivism” in the […]
Dr. Trita Parsi reacts to the removal of funding for Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ from the bill set to fund the government through December 3.
“There is nothing Bin Laden could have hoped for more than the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, [which is] Osama Bin Laden’s gift from America.” – Michael Scheuer, former senior intelligence analyst in charge of tracking Osama Bin Laden, in his 2004 book “Imperial Hubris.”
Krystal and Saagar take a deep dive into the forces leading to the stock market tanking, in particular the situation involving China’s real estate market which might sound familiar to many Americans
When Tulsi was running for Prez, I thought she was the best of any of the major party candidates on foreign policy, although she was still too hawkish for my tastes, as this segment indicates. My second favorite candidate was Marianne Williamson, because I thought she was 2nd […]
By Peter Zeihan on September 21, 2021 The French are continuing to make their outrage over last week’s AUKUS submarine deal—and the subsequent cancellation of a pending Franco-Australian submarine supply deal—plain for all to see. IIn addition to withdrawing ambassadors from the United States and Australia (news outlets before […]
Well over 30 years ago, I came to the view that the only way to stop massacres carried out by the US or by proxies armed, funded, or trained by the US, would be to abolish the US government itself. And that seems to be becoming more of […]
Ryan Grim and Alyssa Farah weigh in on the new details surrounding the December assassination of Iran’s top scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Veteran and Senate candidate, Lucas Kunce, joins Ryan Grim and Alyssa Farah to weigh in on the Pentagon’s announcement that an airstrike in Kabul was a “tragic mistake.”
By Peter Zeihan on September 20, 2021 The United States and United Kingdom have shouldered out the French in a deal to supply submarines to Australia. And not just any submarines, potentially nuclear–powered submarines. France was poised to ink a deal worth more than $65 billion for sale of […]
Iraq War veteran and Empire Files producer Mike Prysner disrupted a speech by George W. Bush in Beverly Hills on Sept. 19, 2021. Everyone should do this wherever these neocons and imperialists are.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative commonly held by observers in the west that the Afghans are a people defined by perpetual warfare. Like many stereotypes, this one comes with a cornel of truth. After all, the people of Afghanistan […]
Krystal and Saagar explain how defense contractors and politicians reaped huge profits off the war on terror over the past 20 years
My guest today is Amy Chua. Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. Her books include World on Fire, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, The Triple Package, Political Tribes, and many more. She’s made Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in 2011 and […]
By Tom McTague Defense One The White House wants to build a new world order, all in an effort to preserve the old one. A new world is beginning to take shape, even if it remains disguised in the clothes of the old. The United States, Britain, and […]
Friday, General Kenneth Franklin McKenzie Jr. took the blame for the U.S. drone strike against ISIS-K, which he confirmed killed 0 ISIS-K operatives, but 10 civilians, including 7 children.
Telos Zoom Discussion September 18, 2021 4 pm to 6 pm U.S. Eastern time Join Telos editors Mark Kelly, Tim Luke, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, David Pan, and David Westbrook for a discussion of the causes of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan and the long-term consequences. To attend, […]
By Peter Zeihan on September 17 2021 So, what does keep my up at night? The current global semiconductor supply chain. Distinct capabilities exist in separate supply chains and manufacturing bases—lower end supply from China, higher-end chips from places like Taiwan and South Korea. And a critical middle-ground from […]
Peter Zeihan’s Sinoskepticism is a welcome counter-voice to the present efforts by the US power elite to develop a cold war with China. By Peter Zeihan on September 16, 2021 Concerns are rising over Chinese dominance in the realm of rare earths metals processing. This is a problem that […]
by Alexander Chipman Koty ASEAN Briefing ndonesia is set to open two new special economic zones (SEZs) in the island city of Batam after President Joko Widodo recently approved the decision. The new zones aim to develop a number of industries in Batam, with an emphasis on the […]
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will be looking at its relationship with Pakistan in the coming weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, to formulate what role Washington would want it play in the future of Afghanistan. In the first public hearing in Congress about Afghanistan since last month’s collapse […]
Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy and Force Development at the Defense Department, and author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, joins The Realignment to discuss the War on Terror’s legacy, how great […]
English language editor for Haiti Liberté, Kim Ives, details the case against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, after a prosecutor announced he would be indicted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
Reporter for The Intercept, Andrew Fishman, details protests against Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro’s plans to bring industry to the Amazon.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Rachel Bovard react to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent testimony during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Blinken answered questions regarding the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By Peter Zeihan on September 14, 2021 Speculation over Afghanistan’s potential mineral wealth is just that–speculation. What we do know about the hard reality of the country’s geography, infrastructure and development profile readily explains why we’re still talking about Afghan mineral wealth in the realm of potential trillions–it might […]
The Economist Failure in Afghanistan shows it has not learned the lessons of Vietnam. ONCE AMERICA announced that it would not save its client state, things unravelled quickly. As the enemy seized province after province, government soldiers shed their uniforms and ran. On paper the army had hundreds […]
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create 21 million refugees and cause over 800,000 deaths, and spent over $6 trillion […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 68 percent of voters consider it a big problem that the U.S. military left behind billions of dollars of military hardware in Afghanistan. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky discuss.
Krystal and Saagar break down the revelations from the recently declassified documents about the connection between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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